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WA Elementary Students Are Eating Outside In 39-Degree Weather While Teachers Dine Indoors - For 'Safety'
mrctv.org ^ | January 5, 2022 | Brittany M. Hughes

Posted on 01/05/2022 10:21:14 AM PST by lowbridge

Young students at one Washington State elementary school are being forced to eat lunch outside in near-freezing temperatures, for “safety.”

Parents of Lakeview Elementary students were outraged after finding out their children had returned from winter break and were being made to eat their meals outdoors as part of the school’s COVID policies on social distancing. One mom, who has two children enrolled in the school’s first and third grades, said her husband called the school to ask about the policy after their kids complained, only to be told that children would be required to eat outside “as long as temperatures did not drop below 38 degrees Fahrenheit,” the Kirland Reporter stated.

According to school officials, that threshold wasn't chosen due to concern for the children or for any COVID-related scientific reasons, but rather because that's the average wintertime temperature for the area.

From the Reporter:

Lake Washington School District spokesperson Shannon Parthemer said the 38-degree threshold was decided on because it is the average temperature of Kirkland during the months of December, January and February. She said if temperatures fall below that mark, the school will work to find other places for students to eat lunch indoors.

“The principal did send a message to families yesterday, to remind families to dress their children warmly for school today, as students will continue to eat in this outdoor covered space,” said Parthemer.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: arth; covid
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1 posted on 01/05/2022 10:21:14 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

the 38-degree threshold was decided on because it is the average temperature of Kirkland during the months of December, January and February

With that rationale, if the average temp was minus 38, the kids would also be sent outside.

Are all school employees this F’ing stupid?


2 posted on 01/05/2022 10:25:43 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: lowbridge

Homeschool. When will parents take responsibility for their children’s education?


3 posted on 01/05/2022 10:25:47 AM PST by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: lowbridge

I’m willing to bet there are regulations against treating prisoners this way.


4 posted on 01/05/2022 10:28:36 AM PST by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!)
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To: lowbridge

Why does no one file a charge of child abuse against these monsters?


5 posted on 01/05/2022 10:29:34 AM PST by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
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To: lowbridge

Insleehole should be made to eat HIS lunch outside.


6 posted on 01/05/2022 10:31:10 AM PST by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: lowbridge

How many times do these dopey parents have to be told? TAKE YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS!! Geez Louise.


7 posted on 01/05/2022 10:32:08 AM PST by albie
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It appears most of the parents are ok with this. They alone have the power to change things.


8 posted on 01/05/2022 10:32:25 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Jonny7797

Are all school employees this F’ing stupid?

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Share the blame. Parents have to be this F’ing stupid as they deliberately send their kids to public schools.


9 posted on 01/05/2022 10:32:26 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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10 posted on 01/05/2022 10:32:51 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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"children would be required to eat outside “as long as temperatures did not drop below 38 degrees Fahrenheit”

Noontime temperatures in the Seattle area are usually in the low to mid-40s in winter, so they will be eating outside most of the time in pretty crummy weather. Today, we still have some snow on the ground from a Christmas-night storm, and it's probably around 39-40 degrees outside, cold and wet.

You almost get the impression that the teachers hate their students.
11 posted on 01/05/2022 10:33:07 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Jonny7797

Not stupid, just selfish.


12 posted on 01/05/2022 10:33:38 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: lowbridge

Shannon Parthemer should be made to spend days on end outside in the cold weather to see just how well she subscribes to the global warming philosophy...


13 posted on 01/05/2022 10:34:10 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: PilotDave

Kinda like the joke that’s been going around “a pedophile and a convicted felon go into a bar...but an unvaccinated person can’t”...


14 posted on 01/05/2022 10:34:10 AM PST by bigbob
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To: metmom

ARTH ping!


15 posted on 01/05/2022 10:35:55 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lowbridge

Nothing to see.

Washington, Oregon, California.

It’s the left coast, don’t ‘ya know?


16 posted on 01/05/2022 10:36:50 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: Apparatchik

Why does no one file a charge of child abuse against these monsters?

For the same reasons parents don't report rapes, beatings and other abuses of children ongoing daily at public schools.

Who wants A/G Garland, The DOJ and the FBI to put you on a domestic terrorist list?

17 posted on 01/05/2022 10:37:24 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: Steve_Seattle
You almost get the impression that the teachers hate their students

Paedorouthoúniphobes!

Irrational fear of children's nostrils.

18 posted on 01/05/2022 10:38:12 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lowbridge

I wonder if the teacher’s lounge is closes.

I wonder if the teachers and principal eat lunch with their students.


19 posted on 01/05/2022 10:39:17 AM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: lowbridge

I guess the dems are continuing to figure how they can kill more people, kids, etc. There is no doubt in my mind that America is circling the DRAIN.


20 posted on 01/05/2022 10:40:03 AM PST by kagnew
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